Abstract
Current geochronological data on the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt (OCVB) and relevant problems are discussed. The belt evolution is suggested to be modeled based on 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb dates more useful in several aspects than common K-Ar or Rb-Sr dates and methods of paleobotanical correlation. Based on new 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb dates obtained for volcanic rocks in the OCVB northern part, the younger (Coniacian) age is established for lower stratigraphic units in the Central Chukotka segment of the belt, and the eastward migration of volcanic activity is shown for terminal stages of this structure evolution.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
V. V. Akinin and A. T. Calvert, Cretaceous Mid-Crustal Metamorphism and Exhumation of the Koolen Gneiss Dome, Chukotka Peninsula, Northeastern Russia, Special Pap. Geol. Soc. Am. 360, 147–165 (2002).
V. V. Akinin, S. V. Vysotskiy, F. K. Mazdab, et al., “SHRIMP Dating of Zircon from the Podgelbanochny Alkali Basalt Volcano in Primorye, Russian Far East: Implication to Genesis of Megacrysts,” in Proceedings of the Interim. IAGOD Conference on Metallogeny of the Pacific Northwest: Tectonics, Magmatism and Metallogeny of Active Continental Margins (DALNAUKA, Vladivostok, 2004), pp. 323–326.
V. F. Belyi, Volcanic Formations and Stratigraphy of Northern Part of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Belt (Nauka, Moscow, 1969) [in Russian].
V. F. Belyi, Stratigraphy and Structures of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt (Nauka, Moscow, 1977) [in Russian].
V. F. Belyi, “To Age Problem of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt,” Tikhookean. Geol., No. 3, 101–109 (1982).
V. F. Belyi, “Discussion,” Tikhookean. Geol., No. 5, 70–71 (1992).
V. F. Belyi, Geology of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt (SVKNII DVO RAN, Magadan, 1994) [in Russian].
V. F. Belyi, “Mid-Cretaceous Phytostratigraphy and Paleobotany of Northern Asia,” Stratigr. Geol. Korrelyatsiya 5(2), 51–59 (1997) [Stratigr. Geol. Correlation 5 (2), 147–155 (1997)].
V. F. Belyi and B. V. Belaya, Late Evolutionary Stage of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt (upper reaches of the Enmyvaam River) (SVKNII DVO RAN, Magadan, 1998) [in Russian].
G. E. Bondarenko, O. L. Morozov, P. Leier, and P. S. Minyuk, “New Data on Ar-Ar Isotope Dating of Magmatic and Metamorphic Rocks of the Taigonos Peninsula, Northeastern Russia,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk 369(1), 76–83 (1999) [Dokl. Earth Science 369 (8), 1069–1072 (1999)].
W. Compston, I. S. Williams, and C. Meyer, “U-Pb Geochronology of Zircons from Lunar Breccia 73217 Using a Sensitive High Mass-Resolution Ion Microprobe,” J. Geophys. Res. 89, B525–B534 (1984).
P. S. Dahl, “A Crystal-Chemical Basis for Pb Retention and Fission-Track Annealing Systematics in U-Bearing Minerals, with Implications for Geochronology,” Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 150, 277–90 (1997).
M. H. Dodson, “Closure Temperature in Cooling Petrological and Geochronological Systems,” Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 40, 259–274 (1973).
A. I. Dvoryankin, E. L. Lebedev, and N. I. Filatova, “Stratigraphy of Cretaceous Continental Deposits in the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt,” in Continental Cretaceous of the USSR, Ed. by V. A. Krasilov (Nauka, Vladivostok, 1990) [in Russian].
R. P. Esser, W. C. McIntosh, M. T. Heizler, and P. R. Kyle, “Excess Argon in Melt Inclusions in Zero-Age Anorthoclase Feldspar from Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, as Revealed by the 40Ar/39Ar Method,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 3789–3801 (1997).
E. Farrar, “The Paleogene Thermal Impact on Granitoid Rocks in the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt: Results of 40Ar/39Ar Dating,” Tikhookean. Geol., No. 1, 109–114 (1992).
G. Faure, Principles of Isotope Geology (Wiley and Sons, New York, 1986; Mir, Moscow, 1989).
N. I. Filatova, Peri-Oceanic Volcanic Belts (Nedra, Moscow, 1988) [in Russian].
N. I. Filatova and E. L. Lebedev, “Senonian Deposits of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt,” Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Geol., No. 10, 111–114 (1982).
G. G. Filippova and L. N. Abramova, The Late Cretaceous Flora of Northeastern Russia (Nedra, Moscow, 1993) [in Russian].
G. G. Filippova, “Stratigraphy and Age of Continental Deposits in the Amguema River Basin and along Northern Coast of the Crest Bay,” Kolyma, No. 2, 12–23 (1997).
Geological Map of the USSR and Nearby Waters, Scale 1: 2 500 000, Ed. by D. V. Nalivkin (VSEGEI, Leningrad, 1983) [in Russian].
F. M. Gradstein, F. P. Agterberg, J. G. Ogg, et al., “Mesozoic Time Scale,” J. Geophys. Res. 99 B, 24 051–24 074 (1994).
W. B. Harland, R. L. Armstrong, A. V. Cox, et al., A Geologic Time Scale 1989 (Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1990).
A. B. Herman, Cretaceous Flora of the Anadyr-Koryak Subregion (Northeastern Russia): Taxonomy, Age, Stratigraphic and Florogenetic Significance) (GEOS, Moscow, 1999) [in Russian].
J. K. Hourigan and V. V. Akinin, “Tectonic and Chronostratigraphic Implications of New 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Arman and Maltan-Ola Volcanic Fields, Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt, Northeastern Russia,” GSA Bull 116(5–6), 637–654 (2004).
Informational Report on Incomplete Project “Compilation of Digital Geological Maps of the Chukotka AO, Scale 1: 500 000” (Monitoring of Regional Geological Survey, Scale 1: 500 000), V.A. Varlamova in charge (FGUGP “Georegion”, Anadyr’, 2004).
V. O. Ispolatov, P. L. Tikhomirov, M. Heizler, and I. Yu. Cherepanova, “New 40Ar/39Ar Ages of Cretaceous Continental Volcanics from Central Chukotka: Implications for Initiation and Duration of Volcanism within the Northern Part of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt (Northeastern Eurasia),” J. Geol. 112, 369–377 (2004).
S. Kelley, “Excess Argon in K-Ar and Ar-Ar Geochronology,” Chem. Geol. 188, 1–22 (2002).
S. R. Kelley, R. A. Spicer, and A. B. Herman, “New 40Ar/39Ar Dates for Cretaceous Chauna Group Tephra, North-Eastern Russia, and Their Implications for the Geologic History and Floral Evolution of the North Pacific Region,” Cretaceous Res. 20, 97–106 (1999).
A. A. P. Koppers, H. Staudigel, and J. R. Wijbrans, “Dating Crystalline Groundmass Separates of Altered Cretaceous Seamount Basalts by the 40Ar/39Ar Incremental Heating Technique,” Chem. Geol. 166(1–2), 139–158 (2000).
I. N. Kotlyar and T. B. Rusakova, Cretaceous Magmatism and Mineral Deposits of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Region: Geologo-Geochronological Correlation (SVKNII DVO RAN, Magadan, 2004) [in Russian].
I. N. Kotlyar, V. F. Belyi, and A. P. Milov, Petrochemistry of Igneous Formations in the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt (Nauka, Moscow, 1981) [in Russian].
I. N. Kotlyar, I. L. Zhulanova, T. B. Rusakova, and A. M. Gagieva, Isotopic Systems of Magmatic and Metamorphic Complexes in Northeast Russia (SVKNII DVO RAN, Magadan, 2001) [in Russian].
L. S. Lane, P. W. Layer, M. P. Cecile, and M. K. Kos’ko, “Ar-Ar Ages from the Okhotsk-Chukotsk Magmatic Arc, Northeast Russia,” in Program and Abstracts of International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM-III), October 12–16, 1998, Celle, Germany, pp. 106–107.
E. L. Lebedev, Stratigraphy and Age of the Okhotsk-Chukotka Volcanic Belt (Nauka, Moscow, 1987) [in Russian].
E. L. Lebedev and N. I. Filatova, Comments on the Article “The Late Stage of Evolution of the Northern Part of the Okhotsk-Chukchi Volcanogenic Belt” by V. F. Belyi, M. I. Raikevich, and B. V. Belaya, Stratigr. Geol. Korrelyatsiya 6(6), 106–110 (1998) [Stratigr. Geol. Correlation 6 (6), 636–639 (1998)].
M. V. Luchitskaya, J. Hourigan, and G. E. Bondarenko, “New SHRIMP U-Pb Zircon Data on Granitoids from the Pribrezhnyi and Eastern Taigonos Belt, Southern Taigonos Peninsula,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk 389(6), 1–5 (2003) [Dokl. Earth Science 389A (3), 354–357 (2003)].
K. R. Ludwig, A User’s Manual for SQUID 1.02 (Geochronology Center, Berkeley, 2001).
E. J. Moll-Stalcup, L. S. Lane, M. P. Cecile, and M. E. Gorodinsky, “Geochemistry and U-Pb Geochronology of Arc-Related Magmatic Rocks, Northeastern Russia,” Geol. Soc. Am. 91st Cordilleran Section 27(5), 1–65 (1995).
G. E. Nekrasov, Tectonics and Magmatism of Taigonos and Northwestern Kamchatka (Nauka, Moscow, 1976) [in Russian].
T. C. Onstott and M. K. Peacock, “Argon Retentivity of Hornblendes: a Field Experiment in a Slowly Cooled Metamorphic Terrane,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51, 2891–2903 (1987).
L. M. Parfenov, W. J. Nockleberg, J. W. H. Monger, et al., “Amalgamation of Terrane Collages in North Circum-Pacific Orogenic Belt,” Geol. Geofiz. 40(11), 1563–1574 (1999).
Resolutions of 2nd Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Conference on Precambrian and Phanerozoic of the Northeast USSR (Stratigraphic Charts) (SVKNII DVO, Magadan) [in Russian].
J. C. Roddick, “High Precision Intercalibration of 40Ar-39Ar Standards,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 47, 887–898 (1983).
V. A. Samylina, “Correlation of Cretaceous Deposits in the Northeast USSR,” Sov. Geol., No. 6, 43–53 (1986).
V. A. Samylina, “Stages of Flora Evolution in Northeast Asia during the Cretaceous Period,” Botan. Zh. 72(4), 417–426 (1987).
V. A. Samylina, The Arkagala Stratoflora of Northeast Asia (Nauka, Leningrad, 1988) [in Russian].
H. A. Sandeman, D. A. Archibald, J. W. Grant, et al., “Characterisation of the Chemical Composition and 40Ar-39Ar Systematics of Interlaboratory Standard MAC-83 Biotite,” in Age and Isotopic Studies (Geol. Survey Canada, 1999), pp. 13–26.
S. V. Shchepetov, Mid-Cretaceous Flora from the Anadyr River Right Side (SVKNII DVO RAN, Magadan, 1992) [in Russian].
S. V. Shchepetov, Stratigraphy of Continental Cretaceous in Northeast Russia (SVKNII DVO RAN, Magadan, 1995) [in Russian].
S. V. Shchepetov, Stratigraphy of Continental Cretaceous in Southwestern Flank of the Kolyma Upland (SVKNII DVO AN SSSR, Magadan, 1991) [in Russian].
J. S. Stacey and J. D. Kramers, “Approximation of Terrestrial Lead Isotope Evolution by a Two-Stage Model,” Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 26, 207–221 (1975).
P. L. Tikhomirov, “Volcanogenic Formations of Central Chukotka: Tectonic Heterogeneity and Some Problems of Stratigraphy and Metallogeny,” Vestn. Ross. Univ. Druzhby Narodov, Ser. Geol. Razved., No. 1, 19–22 (1996).
E. K. Ustiev, “The Okhotsk Tectono-Magmatic Belt and Some Associated Problems,” Sov. Geol., No. 3, 3–26 (1959).
I. S. Williams, “U-Th-Pb Geochronology by Ion Microprobe: Applications of Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Mineralizing Processes,” Rev. Econom. Geol. 7, 1–35 (1998).
J. A. Winick, W. C. McIntosh, and N. W. Dunbar, “Melt-Inclusion-Hosted Excess 40Ar in Quartz Crystals of the Bishop and Bandelier Magma Systems,” Geology 29(3), 275–278 (2001).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
Original Russian Text © P.L. Tikhomirov, V.V. Akinin, V.O. Ispolatov, P. Alexander, I.Yu. Cherepanova, V.V. Zagoskin, 2006, published in Stratigrafiya, Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2006, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 67–81.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Tikhomirov, P.L., Akinin, V.V., Ispolatov, V.O. et al. The Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt: Age of its northern part according to new Ar-Ar and U-Pb geochronological data. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 14, 524–537 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593806050054
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593806050054